Aug 12, 2011 | Cards, Mini - Love Notes, Stampin' Up! Convention |
Time to share more 3×3 Mini Cards with you. These are all cards from a Stampin’ Up! convention swap that I took part in. I swapped 105 mini cards. Speaking of Mini Cards my next Hands-On Class which if Friday, August 19th will be a Mini Cards class. If you’d like to attend visit my website at www.monika.stampinup.net and rsvp on the class you’d like to come to. For the class I will be choosing some ideas from the swaps that I received and creating a few new ones. I hope you will join me for this fun mini card class.
Now on to some more of the swaps from convention – I’ll have a picture of each grouping and then below I’ll list the creator of the card if I have it. Some of the cards either didn’t have a name with them or they became separated from the card. So if one of these is yours and I don’t have your name please let me know.
This group is all Christmas/winter –
Top Row: no name, Martha, Cindi Layendecker
Middle Row: Lynn Johnston, no name, Jennifer Campbell
Bottom Row: Tami Morkan, Maria Kosturik, no name
Top Row: Kim Smith, Kerrie, Snyder, Lisa Horton
Middle Row: Becky Kittaka, Carol Valentine, Miriam Permut
Bottom Row: Barbara Dykhouse, Teresa Guerdana, Jen Blank (this one looks just like one of mine I posted earlier this year but mine is a larger size)
Top Row: Connie Bjork, Laura Haffke, Cindy Castleman
Middle Row: Carol Siers, Freda Laureano, no name
Bottom Row: Becky Barnett, Charlotte Coombes, Lisa Rodriguez
I’ll have the rest for tomorrow. Have a great day!
Aug 1, 2011 | Cards, Mini - Love Notes, Stampin' Up! Convention |
Here are more of the 3×3 Love Note Swaps that I got at convention. I am planning a class for August – my Hands-On class will feature these mini 3×3 cards. I’ll have more details on the class soon. I plan to pick out of the 100+ swaps that I got at convention.
On the ones below I will put the name of the person that made it if I know – I have a couple where the names fell off (they were on post-it notes or slips of paper) and some just didn’t seem to have any info at all. If one of these is yours and I didn’t have your name please leave me a comment.
Here are the creators for the 1st set shown.
Top Row left to right – no name, Jennifer Taylor, Natasha Byrne
Middle Row left to right – Andrea Skillman, Monica Chan, no name
Bottom Row left to right – Vanessa Zhong, Shauna Smith, Sandy Carlson
3x3 convention swaps
Here are the creators for the second set shown.
Top Row left to right – Gerry Dyer, no name, no name
Middle Row left to right – Linda Madison, no name, Tammy Doll
Bottom Row left to right – Donna Snider, Jenice Detro, Eva Davalos
I still have more to share later in the week….
Today was Ryan’s first day back to school. I know most people are probably still on summer break but ours has quickly come to and end.
Jul 20, 2011 | Cards, Faux Mother of Pearl, Mini - Love Notes, Stampin' Up! Convention |
For Convention I signed up for several organized swaps. I think I did more this year than I have in past years. At least it felt that way. The one I’m going to show you today is the 3×3 Love Note Swap. This was a large group – 160 total people but we were able to choose how many we wanted to make and swap. I made 105 of these.
I know I had friends in this swap and I ran out before I got to them. You should have seen the line – I think we made one huge circle throughout the North lobby of the convention center. Everybody had their bag or box with the swap that they made and then a bag or box to get the ones from everyone else. It was like trick-or-treating as everyone went down the line. These were full 3×3 cards and on the inside was supposed to be each creators contact information in case we had questions. I will be taking and posting pictures of those that I received and will try to include the persons name – I did notice the ones I looked at yesterday not all of them had a name.
So more about mine – the base is Textured Soft Suede card stock. These are easiest to make from sheets of 12×12 card stock – because you cut them into 3×6 pieces and fold in half. Then I have another layer of Textured Soft Suede card stock that was punched on both sides with the Scallop Trim Border Punch. Next is a Decorative Label punch piece in Baja Breeze. The focal point is the image from the new Hostess set called Tagtastic – I used the Faux Mother of Pearl Technique. You can find my instructions in this post HERE. I stamped the image in Soft Suede ink and colored the little flowers with Baja Breeze Stampin’ Write marker.
The final thing was to add the little flower – it is the punch from the Bitty Punch Pack – two of them in Baja Breeze – crumpled up and then layered with a pearl in the center.
I did get some family help on this one. Greg helped crumple some of the flowers – until he said his fingers hurt. Tyler stuck my info label on the post it notes that went inside for the swap.
if you received this swap from me – I hope you liked it. I think I gave them all away including my sample so I don’t have one here anymore. I think I’ll make some more because I really like it.
Here is a list of things I have coming up next week – you can check out my schedule of events on my website and RSVP for anything you would like to attend. CLICK HERE.
Wed. July 27th – Card Maker’s Club
Fri. July 29th – Scrapbook Class
Sat. July 30th – PAWS Downline Meeting – July is a great time to join Stampin’ Up! – a $99 special, free Keepsake box project kit, and many more reasons. Contact me today if you want to know more.
Have a nice day!
Jul 12, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Mini - Love Notes, Summer Mini 2011, UDI Color Challenge |
Today is the best Tuesday! Why? Because I am on my way to the Stampin’ Up! Convention! Yeah – so much fun, so many friends, so many ideas….I can’t wait to get there. I’m leaving all the boys behind and getting a full 6 days of girl time!
I have been super busy and away from home a lot – so my blog posts have been a little sparse – hopefully I’ll have time to set some up to post while I am away (like this one) or actually post from convention (if we have internet access). So on to today’s color challenge from Utah Diva’s….
This weeks challenge is some bright summer colors. Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait, and Riding Hood Red. At first I thought what am I going to do with all those colors – they are pretty together but I just don’t know where to go with them. They made me thing of a rainbow – which always makes me think of Roy G. Biv. Do you know what that is? I can’t even remember how long ago I learned that – probably elementary school somewhere. But it is something I won’t ever forget. Roy G. Biv – that is the colors of the rainbow – Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. And this weeks color challenge is real close to including all the colors of the rainbow.
I was caught up with the fact that there were five colors and some how wanted to have 5 different things like a rainbow of color – I thought letters and was thinking of 5 letter words. And then I remembered the single stamp in the Summer Mini catalog – Hello Blossoms – that’s a five letter word – Hello. So I pulled out the set and did some quick playing around with it.
Ultimately I covered up the Hello and went with the 5 blossoms and this is the result –
I ended up with a cute little 3×3 card! I stamped the Hello Blossom stamp in Pear Pizzazz ink on a piece of Whisper White card stock. The “grass” at the bottom is where I dragged the edge of the ink pad over the card stock – it gave the look of little hills of grass. To add the color i decided to use the Sweet Buttons Embosslit and I cut one set of buttons in each color. I put them in order of the rainbow. Then I decided to add the little crinkled flowers to the center and pop in a tiny pearl. Perfect result I think. The buttons in the back give each flower a different personality. The greeting is from a new Hostess stamp set called Perfect Words. I chose the “you’re the BEST” – because you guys are the best! The new Hostess program is going to be awesome. My first hostess got TWO half-price items!! And she was able to get all the hostess sets that she wanted – instead of being limited to quantities and levels.
I hope you have a great week and if I don’t post this week – don’t despair, I’ll be back with posts after convention including all my convention swaps – although I hope to have those scheduled while I’m away. Be back soon!
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Pear Pizzazz, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, Riding Hood Red, Peach Parfait, Tempting Turquoise
- Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Riding Hood red
- Stamp sets: Hello Blossoms, Perfect Word
- Accessories: Big Shot, Sweet Buttons Embosslit, Bitty Punch Pack, Basic Pearls.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
